I wanted to alert open-minded members/guests to an article that I have just read in a British liberal magazine.
The article is definitely pro-Palestinian.
I admit that it made me rethink some of my feelings about the current Israeli-Palestinian situation.
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Henry Siegman in his article "Two Terrorisms" includes these comments:
1. "Palestinians opposed the UN partition plan and started the 1948 war, but they did so not because of their hatred of Jews or their unhappiness with the partition plans, but because they didn't want to accept exile, homelessness and disenfranchisement."
2. "[T]he Jews of Palestine in 1948 were a minority and if the Jewish state was to be a democracy, it would need a Jewish majority, meaning that the 750,000 Palestinians who lived there would have been expelled even if they hadn't rejected the partition plan or declared war on the new Jewish state."
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I read this article in the print edition of the London Review of Books of May 24, 2018. (I assume it's available online.)
The article is definitely pro-Palestinian.
I admit that it made me rethink some of my feelings about the current Israeli-Palestinian situation.
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Henry Siegman in his article "Two Terrorisms" includes these comments:
1. "Palestinians opposed the UN partition plan and started the 1948 war, but they did so not because of their hatred of Jews or their unhappiness with the partition plans, but because they didn't want to accept exile, homelessness and disenfranchisement."
2. "[T]he Jews of Palestine in 1948 were a minority and if the Jewish state was to be a democracy, it would need a Jewish majority, meaning that the 750,000 Palestinians who lived there would have been expelled even if they hadn't rejected the partition plan or declared war on the new Jewish state."
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I read this article in the print edition of the London Review of Books of May 24, 2018. (I assume it's available online.)